Respect

by Daniel Johnston

Respect cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: January 1985
  • Label: Stress
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 30:39
  • Community rating: 3.08/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Self-recorded exclusively on a boombox and distributed intimately on cassette, this album captures the outsider folk artist at his most stripped-down and painfully sincere. 'Respect' primarily features Johnston alone with an out-of-tune guitar or chord organ, singing highly personal, Beatles-influenced melodies about unrequited love and mental distress. The raw, unfiltered emotion of the recordings endeared him heavily to the burgeoning American indie rock underground.

Genres

Descriptors: Lo Fi, lo-fi, minimalistic, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. No Love in Town (1:00)
  2. An Angel Cry (2:11)
  3. Have Respect (2:46)
  4. Dream (1:05)
  5. I Know What I Want (2:09)
  6. Merry-Go-Round (1:58)
  7. A Little Bit of Soap (2:26)
  8. Loneliness (1:42)
  9. Good Morning You (1:14)
  10. Go (4:22)
  11. Fast Go (1:25)
  12. Car Crash (0:24)
  13. Just Like a Widow (1:46)
  14. Heartbreak Hotel (2:15)
  15. You Killed My Baby (1:50)
  16. You Are a Writer (0:26)
  17. Go Some More (0:14)
  18. Theme from Respect (1:17)

Credits

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